Search Results: Authors starting with O from Locus Solus Rare Books

Waldport, Oregon, 1945. Slightly soiled; near fine. 8vo, unpag. chapbook in wrappers, stapled. The final in-camp issue of this magazine of poetry, prose, and artwork, produced by internees in a Civilian Public Service camp for conscientious objectors during the Second World War. Two later numbers were produced in Pasadena, California several years later. Strikingly designed by Kemper Nomand, with a screen-printed cover. Among the interned contributors are poet William Everson and artist Robert Harvey, with further contributions from Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, Alex Comfort, and others.

New York: Walker, 1966. Second U.S. edition. Evenly toned owing to poor quality paper; very good in a slightly dusted jacket. 8vo, (3160pp; brick red cloth. The classic Irish comic novel, originally published in 1939. This edition includes quotations about the book from James Joyce and Dylan Thomas on the front cover, Graham Greene and V.S. Pritchett on the rear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1990. First Edition. As new in dust jacket. 8vo, 273pp; cloth-backed boards. An excellent copy in the first-issue dust jacket, printed slightly off register. This copy signed "Best, Tim O'Brien" on the half title page.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First American edition. Bookplate; very slight lean; fine in a slightly dust-soiled dust jacket, spine darkened a shade and with some minor scratches.. 8vo, 334pp; cloth. A very nice copy of the priest-turned-novelist's book about the lives of young women in Catholic Ireland. The rare dust jacket reproduces a letter to the publisher from George Moore as a blurb in the front panel; the bookplate is that of newspaper publisher and collector J.L. Sturtevant.

Ann Arbor: Civil Rights Federation, 1940. First edition. Neatly folded twice horizontally; fine.. Two-sided broadsheet, approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches, printed on both sides. Announcement of the "Open Hearing" held on behalf of thirteen expelled students, with a graphic image of a judge on the recto, and a length text along with lists of participants and sponsors on the rear. Following a peace rally in April 1940, University President Alexander G. Ruthven, fearing fifth-column Communist organizing on campus, expelled the students, mostly members of the left-wing American Student Union. The case drew national attention at a time when the country was deeply divided over the war in Europe. At this culminating event in November, a range of speakers including representatives of the Civil Rights Federation, labor unions, professors and activists, denounced Ruthven and defended the students' first amendment rights. In the end, however, the students remained expelled and a year later the U.S. was in the war.

London: E.Lahr, n.d.. First edition. A couple of tiny nicks to edges, just about fine.. 12mo, 11pp pamphlet in wrappers. Issued as Blue Moon Booklet No. 1, probably around 1930.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1930. First American edition. Fine in very lightly used dust jacket, spine faded a bit.. 8vo, 198pp; apricot cloth stamped in black. A nice copy of O'Flaherty's WWI novel. He served on the western front in an Irish regiment and was wounded in combat.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. First edition. Few scattered spots of foxing; endsheets offset from binder's glue; slight lean, otherwise fine in a lightly rubbed and dusted dust jacket.. 8vo, 288pp; green cloth with printed spine label. O'Flaherty's second collection of short stories.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927. First edition. Some inconsequential marks to endsheets; a nice, uncut, copy; dust jacket worn at joints and with fingernail-sized chips to both ends of spine.. Small 8vo, 58pp; linen-backed patterned boards with printed spine label; handmade paper dust jacket printed on spine only. One of 1190 numbered (319) copies in the edition, printed by William Edwin Rudge and signed by O'Flaherty on the half-title page.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1946. First edition. Fine in a slightly soiled dust jacket with a few small spots and tiny nicks; Johannesburg bookshop sticker to front pastedown.. Small 8vo, 234pp; green cloth.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. First edition. A few marks to covers, otherwise just about fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket with a handful of small closed tears, mended on the underside with cellotape that has discolored the cloth; pinhole to front panel. 8vo, 299pp with list of author's books tipped in at rear; off-white cloth stamped in black and red. O'Flaherty was a Communist earlier in his life, but had left the party by the time of his visit to the USSR.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. First edition. Offsetting to endpapers from binder's glue; fine in a lightly toned dust jacket with just one small closed tear to the rear panel and a touch of softening at the spine ends.. 8vo, 287pp; black cloth.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929. First American edition. Fine in a very slightly faded dust jacket; an excellent copy.. 8vo, 287pp; cloth-backed boards.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First edition. Toning to endsheets from binder's glue; fine in a lightly used dust jacket.. 8vo, frontispiece, 320pp; green cloth. O'Flaherty's biography of the first Governor-General of the Free Irish State. Laid in is the publisher's order form for two recent books.

New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1932. First American edition. Spatter marks to top edge; a bit shelf rubbed and marked; very good in an edgeworn dust jacket, spine faded a shade or two and with a small hole to the rear hinge and a long narrow chip along the upper edge of the rear panel.. 8vo, 274pp; terracotta cloth.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. Faint toning to endsheets from binder's glue, otherwise fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket with just a bit of wear at the upper edge; corner of the front flap clipped, but with the price of 7s. 6d. printed above it, suggesting that this may be a second issue with a new price.. 8vo, 351pp; blue-gray cloth. Cover and frontispiece portrait of O'Flaherty by F.A. Coventry.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition. Some internal offsetting affecting the first two leaves; fine in a lightly used dust jacket, bright with a some minor marking.. 8vo, 352pp; cloth. Stamped "Overseas Edition" on the front flyleaf.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927. Second US Printing. Fine in a lightly used dust jacket with a short tear to the front panel.. 8vo, 282pp; cloth.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. First edition. Very slight lean; bookplate; old tape marks to endsheets where a protective wrapper was once affixed, a very good copy in a bright graphic dust jacket with slight wear to spine ends and some minor marking.. 8vo, 326pp + ad leaf; orange cloth.

New York: Random House, 1937. First American edition. A couple of tiny spots on spine, else fine in a lightly used and rubbed dust jacket with a short tear to the front panel and a bit fraying at the top of the spine.. 8vo, 466pp; cloth. Far scarcer than the Literary Guild book club edition of this title.